The Young King of the Black Isles (5) [Story of the Black Isles]
The Young King of the Black Isles (5)
" I did not fail to lend the most attentive ear to their discouse, and heard her adress herself thus to her gallant : ' I do not deserve, ' she said, ' to be reproached by you for want of diligence. You well know the reason ; but if all the proofs of affection I have already to give you be not sufficient to convince you of my sicerity, I am ready togive you others more decisive: you need but command me, you know my power ; I will, if you desire it, before sunrise convert this great city, and this superb palace, into frightful ruins, inhabited only by wolves, owls, and ravens. If you would have me transport all the stones of those walls so solidly built, beyond Mount Caucasus, the bounds of the habitable world, speak but the word, and all shall be changed. '
" As queen finished this speech she and her companion came to the end of the walk, turned to enter another, and passed before me. I had already drawn my cimeter, and the man being next me, I struck him on the neck, and brought him to the ground.
I concluded I had killed him, and therefore retired speedily without making myself known to the queen, whom I chose to spare, because she was my kinswoman.
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" I did not fail to lend the most attentive ear to their discouse, and heard her adress herself thus to her gallant : ' I do not deserve, ' she said, ' to be reproached by you for want of diligence. You well know the reason ; but if all the proofs of affection I have already to give you be not sufficient to convince you of my sicerity, I am ready togive you others more decisive: you need but command me, you know my power ; I will, if you desire it, before sunrise convert this great city, and this superb palace, into frightful ruins, inhabited only by wolves, owls, and ravens. If you would have me transport all the stones of those walls so solidly built, beyond Mount Caucasus, the bounds of the habitable world, speak but the word, and all shall be changed. '
" As queen finished this speech she and her companion came to the end of the walk, turned to enter another, and passed before me. I had already drawn my cimeter, and the man being next me, I struck him on the neck, and brought him to the ground.
I concluded I had killed him, and therefore retired speedily without making myself known to the queen, whom I chose to spare, because she was my kinswoman.
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2016-04-08 16:00
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